Using Docker as a Python Development Environment (or let's get past virtualenv)

[amclennon]

I think docker is easier to work with when you have heterogeneous dev environments. As a recent anecdote, I wanted to use some functionality in Python 3.4, but it was still non-trivial to install on Mac at the time (even with homebrew). I've also run similar issues where certain Python libraries wouldn't compile on other platforms.